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He wanted an answer! He wanted an answer now! He was looking at her as if it was a potions question in class. But it wasn't, this was something that was going to change her life forever. Even if she said no to him it would still affect her.

Wait, what did she mean 'if' she said no to him. She was going to have too. There was no way that she could say yes to him.

Her friends would never speak to her. She would live her life as a Snape. Not to mention she would have to live with this brooding man. She needed happiness in her life. She needed to laugh and be merry. This man was none of these things. In fact she wasn't even sure he could laugh.

He wanted to have a baby with her! A baby, for Merlin sake. He thought she would be a good mother. Sure she had thought about having children, more than one even. She wanted a big family. Growing up as an only child had been hard on her. She wanted her family to love and have each other to fall on in hard times. But did she really want it now? And they would have to get her pregnant soon.

Oh Merlin! They would have to get her pregnant! She knew that would mean having…sex with professor Snape. If it was done any other way then the baby would be born without magic. Although that wouldn't really bother her it would him. Of course she wanted her child to have the gift of magic. Her gift had changed her life and for the better, that is what she would want for her child. But if the child was born a squib then that would be okay too. She would love it just as much as a magical child.

Why is she even thinking about this? She would not have his child. She would not marry him!

The anger from his earlier words came back to her. How dare he think that she would need a man on the side! She had few sexual partners and had never seen the attraction to it. Yes, it felt good but nothing amazing. To add to that he thought that she would need to have another man. But it also annoyed her because he didn't think that he was good enough for her, that he thought she would need more.

Why did he have to pick her? She was 24! She didn't want to have to make this choice. He said she was smart and had amazing magical abilities. Flattered didn't even cover what she was feeling! To think that she had spent her teen years trying to please this man. To show him that she wasn't some stupid mudblood but a very bright witch.

He was watching her, waiting for her answer. Well she might as well tell him.

"Okay." Wait that wasn't what she meant to say! She was to turn him down, tell him that she was sorry but that she couldn't do this for him.

Looking up at him she saw he was just as stunned as she was, more even.

Try again; tell him that you can't do it.

"I'll do it." Damn it!

"You will?" he asked.

"yes." No!

He starred at her for a while. Not saying a thing just watching her face. Feeling more than a little nervous, she wiggled on her seat. What was he thinking?

"We must leave here." He stood and walked to the door.

"What do you mean 'leave here'? Where are we going?" she asked jumping to her feet but not moving closer to the door.

"We have to go to Dumbledore." He said impatiently.

"What? Why?"

He turned to look at her fully.

"We have to get married. I did tell you that." He snapped.

"You want us to get married tonight!" she said gob smacked.

"I have told you already, I am 42 and I have to have a child. The sooner we get…started the better." Again he turned to the door. "Why in Merlin's name are you not connected to the floo network?"

Without even thinking she answered.

"I had some unwelcome guests last week." She turned to look for her robe.

"What do you mean 'unwelcome guests'?" he asked looking at her sharply.

"It was nothing I couldn't handle." When he didn't stop starring at her, she walked to the door and opened it. "You ready or are you just going to just stare at me?"

If they were going to be married…if they were going to have a child together, then she was not going to be treated like a child. She was grown woman; she was going to carry his child. She would not be the slave.

Why did I say yes!

She walked out of the flat and down to the front door. Opening it she walked out side. To think, not that long ago she had walked through that very door into her flat, looking forward to a quite night. Little did she know then that she would soon be leaving to get married to Snape of all people.

Thinking hard of the path outside the gates of Hogwarts, with a pop she was there. Her tummy was in her throat.

Note to self: when pregnant will no do that.

She was already thinking like that!

This was not good. Hearing a pop behind her she turned to see her old professor standing there looking at her. He still looked in shock. That made more than one of them.

He walked up next to her and took her hand; he linked it in his arm and started walking towards the school.

"You know the process?" he asked.

"Not really." She looked at the floor to hide her shame. She knows many things about many things. But she knew next to nothing about this.

"We will go through the ceremony." He spoke in an emotionless voice. "Dumbledore will bind us together. Our magic will be joint. Together we will have more power than we ever had apart. But this power can only be used when we are in great need of it. After the ceremony we will have 3 hours to…consummate the bond. If you conceive then the child will be strong."

He paused. They walked on in silence, both lost in their thoughts.

"Miss Granger…Hermione…you can still say no." He stopped walking and turned to look at her.

She looked at him. She was in two minds. There was a part of her that wanted to turn and run. She couldn't explain what she was feeling. Doing this, going through what she was about to do, made her more than a little scared. The worry she had about going through with this was losing herself. It was silly really.

Turning to the man next to her, she said.

"Lets hope we do conceive tonight then." With that she turned and walk in front of him.

I know this isn't very long and nothing major happened, but I need this to make the next chapter happen. And something MAJOR is going to happen and this helps lead to it!

Lol

Okay I will stop going on and on now.

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